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Victims of Child Sexual Abuse Shouldn’t Fear Sex, Says US Author
December 07, 2007 at 12:31 PM
Sexual Health News
The number of those sexually abused by their own family members runs to millions in the US, it is reported. But no one is clear on the best strategy to come out of the trauma.
Now author Stacy Haines has come out with a book, "Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma," seeing pleasurable sex and intimacy as an essential part of the healing process for victims of child abuse. Don’t fear sex, that way you may be postponing your own recovery, such seems to be her message.
Sexual trauma is a deep physical, emotional, mental and spiritual betrayal. On a deep level, it has us question the inherent goodness of both ourselves and others. Because there is little social support for sexual trauma survivors to heal, or for perpetrators to be accountable — and also heal — survival and making the choice to heal is often an intensely personal, courageous act, declares Haines.
To enter healing after sexual trauma, one has to be willing to feel emotions and walk through pain that most people avoid. Grief, rage, loss of innocence, isolation and loneliness, shame and guilt are all in the emotional landscape after trauma.
One has to risk being trusting again — not as a good idea, but as a real act of vulnerability.
A survivor has to re-learn skills that trauma destroys, like recognizing what they need, allowing a full range of sensations and emotions, boundaries, consent — the ability to say yes, no and maybe — and combining intimacy with
Now author Stacy Haines has come out with a book, "Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma," seeing pleasurable sex and intimacy as an essential part of the healing process for victims of child abuse. Don’t fear sex, that way you may be postponing your own recovery, such seems to be her message.
Sexual trauma is a deep physical, emotional, mental and spiritual betrayal. On a deep level, it has us question the inherent goodness of both ourselves and others. Because there is little social support for sexual trauma survivors to heal, or for perpetrators to be accountable — and also heal — survival and making the choice to heal is often an intensely personal, courageous act, declares Haines.
To enter healing after sexual trauma, one has to be willing to feel emotions and walk through pain that most people avoid. Grief, rage, loss of innocence, isolation and loneliness, shame and guilt are all in the emotional landscape after trauma.
One has to risk being trusting again — not as a good idea, but as a real act of vulnerability.
A survivor has to re-learn skills that trauma destroys, like recognizing what they need, allowing a full range of sensations and emotions, boundaries, consent — the ability to say yes, no and maybe — and combining intimacy with
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